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Yesterday's Memories 60 YEARS AGO Newspapers from Thursday, April 22 and 29, 1926 are missing. 35 YEARS AGO Mrs. Betty Woods and Mr. Jim Smith of Port Perry were mixed double winners in the Whitby District Badminton Invitation Tour- nament. The local coule defeated the Uxbridge couple, Mrs. Eleanor Harris and Mr. Peter Bernhardt in the final. Mr. Roy Cornish was guest speaker at Bethesda School where teachers and friends met for an informal get--together. Mr. Cornish presented an interesting travelogue on his trip last summer to Ot- tawa, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 20, 1961 Donna Heayn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Heayn, receiv- ed in the presence of her fellow Guides, Brownies, her family and some fifty friends and neighbours, her Gold Cord, a symbol of the highest achievement in Girl Guides. At a meeting of Branch 419, Royal Canadian Legion, it was decid- ed to go ahead with plans for a new Legion Hall in Port Perry. It was also disclosed, that since the organization was formed in 1946, the branch had donated $80,000 to various worthwhile causes. An attempt was made to rob the safe of Master Feeds early Saturday morning. First obtaining tools, including a crowbar from the corporation's tool house nearby, the would--be robbers gained entrance through the east door. Only damage to the safe was done, before the amateur robbers, for some reason, where scared away. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday April 21, 1966 Ontario County Junior Farmers won the Zone Drama Festival held in Uxbridge with the performance of "Comes Romance". Other competing groups came from Victoria County and Halton County. The participants were all members of Brooklin Junior Farmers. The talented young group went on to also win the Ontario Junior Farmers Drama Festival with the same play held in Guelph the following week. : Port Perry Intermediates (Tripp's Bulldozers) are presently tied with Port Elgin one game each in the All-Ontario finals. The winning team in the High School's Intramural Hockey schedule had the following members: Aldon Smith, Don McNenly, John Popowich, Cole Humphrey, Barry Prentice, Bruce Smith and Ron Podres. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, April 21, 1976 The newly formed Big Brothers Association of Scugog is look- ing for volunteers. Members to date are Don Ayotte, Bob Strickert, John Ross, Dr. John Stewart, Eric Fletcher, Mike Wilson and Jim Burnett. May Raby won a gold medal in the mixed--team in the World Bowling Competitions in Regina. The Ontario team squared -- off against Alberta in the final and May finished off the competition with an average of 208. An addition to Prince Albert Public School was one of a number of projects that fell under the axe as the Durham Board of Educa- tion grappled with the prospect of a 18.12 budget hike over the 1975 figure. Both junior Kindergarten and Early Childhood Education pro- grams were chopped from the program as well. Council unanimously authorized the purchase of a "beeper" com- munications system for alerting firemen of emergencies. The cost of the 22 beeper units which can be carried in pockets or on belts is $9,264.87. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, April 22, 1986 -- § Letters Doesn't anyone remember Dear Sir: When | was a student at Port Perry High School in the mid 1930's, there, was a form of terrorism in Europe against the smaller neighbours of a country that was ruled by an egotistical madman. The tactics used by Hitler were those of a bully, constantly pushing the smaller countries, one at a time. Did he in his childhood never poke a hornet's nest until the occupants retaliated? Have we all forgotten Saar, Sudetenland, The Austrian Anchluus, Czechoslovakia and lastly Poland? Praise for medical personnel Dear Sir: With all the publicity and talk around town concerning the "Rabies Scare," a very important factor has been overlooked in my opinion. The medical staff in Port Pfry have responded diligently to accom- modate those many extra patients that have been flocking to their waiting rooms. . As a mother of a child who is tak- ing the rabies vaccine, I would like to sincerely thank the medical staff, especially in the clinic (on Paxton) for handling this 'crisis' professionally. In more modern times, who does not remember the Bay of Pigs, Gulf o. Hanoi, Grenada, Lebanon and the reprehensible regimes of Samoza, Duvalier and Marcos? It seems that if the omnipotent (or should I call them impotent) clique in and around the Oval Office find something anywhere that doesn't conform to their ideals it is treated with the same zeal employed by Joe McCarthy and his witch-hunt. If *'Cowboy Diplomacy' which is just a new name for "Gunboat Diplomacy" is going to be the norm, where are we headed? Is their idea of Armegeddon a lot different from mine and many fellow Canadians? Do we not have in this tired old world any facilities with padded cells for their kind, and also Maggie Thatcher and her tag-along cohorts where they can watch old movies with Ronnie and the Chip? Any country which goes along leaves itself open to any form of to the editor. Letters to the Editor ... our policy It has always been the policy of this newspaper to encourage our readers to make use of the letters to the editor column. Our readers have a right to freely express their opinions and view- points on just about any subject, and we feel that a lively letters column helps make a better community newspaper. We insist, however, that a letter writer sign his or her name. On rare occasions, we will agree to with-hold publication of a letter writer's name, if we feel there are very good reasons to do so. Under no circumstances will this paper print an anonymous letter retaliation. Let's hope that common sense by the common man makes its ideas known before we are dragged into a world-wid Viet Nam war. That one that even most myopic Pentagon types can never say "we won. LA) Yours truly, R.E. Steer Scugog Township. HOSPITAL REPORT April 11 - 17 Admissions ............................. 29 Births ...........ccovcien, 7 Deaths ................coooevvviivinnnnnnn, 2 Emergencies .......................... 218 Operations .......................ov.e, 15 Discharged .........................oo. 30 Remaining ............................... 40 While we enjoy receiving letters from our readers, we must continue Yours sincerely, Deb McDonald, Cawker's Creek. to insist on knowing the identity of the writer. BELVEDERE by Boorgo Orenshaw 8 MUNICIPAL Z00 WHU A SHAGGY TAL!" Viewpoint by John B. McClelland I find myself having mixed reactions to the American air strike against Libya last week. ~ On the positive side, the strike was a clear and plain message from Ronald Reagan to every tin- pot dictator in the world (there are many of them) that if they mess with Uncle Sam, they are going to pay a price. By flying some 150 jet bombers from bases in Britain around the Iberian Peninsula, through thc Strait of Gibralter, along the African coast to Tripoli, and having to refuel those jets four times in the air en route, the American military served notice to the world that it is more than capable of launching a long-range strike at any time at any target. You can bet the Ayatolla and others of his ilk sat up and took notice. There is also no question that Daffy Khadafy is an international criminal. He willingly bankrolls and trains terrorists of every political stripe who have murdered and maimed thousands of innocent persons in just about every corner of the globe. He works constantly to de-stabilize the already volatile Middle East, has called on Arab States to launch a "Holy War' against Israel, and on more than one occasion has attacked weaker neighbours in North Africa. A generation ago, a Vienna vagabond who sported a small, black mustache spent the 1930's pushing around the weak sisters of Central Europe knowing full well the spineless crowd in Paris and London didn't have the guts to ask him to step in- to the alley. Ronald Reagan's critics are calling him a '""cowboy" with a six-gun mentality, but I can't help but wonder how the course of history in the 20th century might have been altered if a '""cowboy" had been on the scene in 1936 when the Vienna vagabond put his storm troopers on the march. Sure the air strike against Khadafy was justified. There comes a time when force has to be matched with force. That's a fact of life in this day and age, just as it was a half century ago in Europe. Sadly, however, even the staunchest sup- porter of Reagan's get tough tactics must agree that one air strike is not going to stamp out the scourge of international terrorism. Khadafy is go- ing to retaliate somewhere in the world, and chances are more innocent lives will be lost. That fact remains. And chances are that when the next terrorist bomb goes off in a crowded airport ter- minal, or in a disco frequented by American soldiers, or in front of an American embassy somewhere, Reagan will scramble the fighter bombers again and launch another strike. Sadly as well, this murderous game does nothing to get at the true roots of international ter- rorism which have their seeds in the squalid poverty of the refugee camps all over the Middle East occupied by the homeless Palestinians. Several million Palestinians languish in these camps and they are quite literally a people without a country. It may be too late, but if the Americans and the Israelis had come to grips with the Palestinian issue years ago, the roots of much of the terrorism in the world may have been nipped. In the meantime, the world can do little but watch and wait for the next bomb to go off. While it's regrettable that the vicious circle of terrorism goes on and on, I hope the Americans continue to flex their muscles in the face of it. Somebody in this world has to stand up to the bullies, the despots, the thugs and the gangsters who would gladly twist a knife in your child's ribs if they thought it would help their cause. And let's not forget, it was not the Americans who started all this stuff. Remember what hap- pened a few years ago in Iran? The Americans simply said at that time: "never again." And they mean it. ing